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From: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:44:29 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Which qemu ports actually work?
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To: Torbjorn Granlund <tg@gmplib.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, qemu-devel Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Torbjorn Granlund <tg@gmplib.org> wrote:
> =C2=A0> "install64", which comes a bit longer. =C2=A0It fails in a new wa=
y: it
> =C2=A0> ignores keyboard input, This happens after the kernel has booted,=
 and
> =C2=A0> the installer has started.
>
> =C2=A0Yes, ignoring keyboard input sounds right. The issue here is that
> =C2=A0we're basically emulating a PPC32 machine, but plug in a PPC64
> =C2=A0CPU. This works mostly, but for ADB it breaks, as the guest kernel
> =C2=A0doesn't have support for our ADB controller. Unfortunately, keyboar=
d
> =C2=A0and mouse are attached using ADB.
>
> =C2=A0One way to get around this is to use -usb -usbdevice keyboard.
>
> That makes no difference. =C2=A0I suppose it is still using the adb keybo=
ard.

I got to livecd prompt, with working keyboard using the following command l=
ine:
qemu-system-ppc64 -boot d -cdrom install-powerpc-minimal-2008.0.iso
-cpu 970fx -M mac99 -usb -usbdevice keyboard

At boot prompt, I just hit enter to select a G5 kernel.